No Lives Matter

I'm guessing it's one of those "challenge your preconceptions" type programmes and she was on it due to having issues with "pakis"/Muslims/immigrants/Asians/people who are different etc. It makes me wonder how many people think "brown people" smell or are inherently dirty in some way? Probably lots. Is it just "Muslims", are other Asians exempt? Are Muslims exempt if they dress in Western clothes and/or have British accents? Do people even know what they think or what they're saying? My guess is no, and there's much evidence to suggest no one really knows what they're doing, as misanthropic as I often am, even I have a hard time with that.

I suppose it's more obvious and exponential with someone who would openly or automatically use a term like "paki", more so than than with those who wouldn't. Clearly there are plenty of people who are happy to think in such terminology and would use it with those close to them but would be smart enough to avoid it openly, but I'd imagine people who dislike people they consider different to them are going to be less rational than those who are less bothered. It's an emotive, angry reaction that allows venting and blame and I suppose it also fosters a stronger sense of belonging to one's own "in group", whoever they might be. A potent drug, perhaps the most potent.

I think everyone is prejudiced on multiple levels and to varying degrees, there will be contradictions: "I hate black people except my mate Dave" or something that amounts to "I don't like (insert group or groups here) apart from all the ones I've met"; on the other hand many seemingly more open people may have more subtle prejudices or ones that are more tolerated or less politicised.

Yup, that's about it. What happens when an impoverished minor aristocrat manages to marry into royalty and spends the next few decades trying to occupy himself and disregarding requests to shut his ignorant entitled gob in public.

Parish Watch

Yup, that's about it. What happens when an impoverished minor aristocrat manages to marry into royalty and spends the next few decades trying to occupy himself and disregarding requests to shut his ignorant entitled gob in public.